When power reached a certain threshold, the so-called barrier between realms was no more than a fragile sheet of paper.
You merely raised your hand and lightly tapped the air with your fingertip.
Crack—!
Space shattered, and a golden road leading to the Divine Realm unfurled beneath your feet.
You stepped forward and appeared instantly at the God Realm Hub!
The Divine Realm, the supreme plane that governed countless lower worlds, faced its ultimate terror in that moment.
Boom—!!!
An ancient, boundless divine might that stood above all things surged out from you and swept across the entire Divine Realm!
The Divine Realm's peaceful, multicolored clouds shattered at once. Countless divine officials and Second- and Third-Level Gods cowered on the ground, trembling. Even the divine power in the air seemed frozen, daring not to flow!
"Who's there?!"
Several streaks of light shot out of the God Realm Committee in alarm.
Leading them were God King of Destruction and Goddess of Life, two of the Divine Realm's five supreme gods.
They had meant to reprimand the intruder, but the moment they saw what stood behind you, every word caught in their throats.
Those were... twelve divine rings!
Not the single ring of a divine official, not the seven rings of a Main God, nor the nine rings of a God King!
They were twelve supreme divine rings, radiating an aura of chaos and seeming to contain the cosmic principles of creation and destruction!
Red light flickered wildly in God King of Destruction's eyes, while Goddess of Life covered her mouth.
How was this possible?! The Divine Realm's rules capped divine rings at nine. What kind of monster had twelve?!
In the face of your aura, these two God Kings, who stood at the pinnacle of the Divine Realm, felt as insignificant as ants on the ground!
You hovered above the Divine Realm with your hands behind your back.
You paid no attention to the fearful, awestruck, and dazed gazes around you.
Your eyes were cold and indifferent as you looked down on these so-called exalted gods, like a dragon gazing at a swarm of insects that didn't know their place.
At last, your gaze pierced through layer upon layer of palaces and fixed on the Sea God Temple.
You spoke.
Your voice was not loud, yet it rang through the depths of every god's soul like a world-ending thunderclap—
"Tang San! Come out and meet your death!!"
"How... how could it be you?!"
Tang San's voice was shrill and trembling. His usually warm and refined face was now filled with abject terror and disbelief!
The Seagod Trident in his hand shook violently, as though sensing some great terror, and let out a mournful wail.
What was he seeing?
As far as the eye could see, no one stood in the entire hall of the God Realm Committee except him!
God of Destruction, Goddess of Life, God of Goodness, God of Evil... These four God Kings, who usually stood as his equals and even had greater seniority, were all on their knees, foreheads pressed to the ground, trembling from head to toe!
They were submitting absolutely to supreme power! They were worshipping the God of Creation!
Even the trusted circle he had painstakingly cultivated in the Divine Realm over ten thousand years, promoting them one by one, had fallen to their knees.
Except...
Perhaps out of ignorance, or perhaps because he was their big brother, the other six members of the Shrek Seven Devils were still stubbornly standing behind Tang San, trying to resist your pressure with their meager divine power.
"Heh. A few have some backbone."
Your voice was calm as still water, without the slightest hint of emotion, as if you were looking at a few ants that didn't know their place.
Your gaze passed over the prostrate gods, swept indifferently across Tang San, and finally settled on the six people behind him.
"If you don't want to kneel, then never kneel again."
You didn't attack. You simply took one step forward.
Boom—!
That step seemed to land on a pivotal point in the Great Dao, shaking the entire Divine Realm!
An indescribably terrifying pressure, like the torrent of the universe at its birth, swept over the six of them!
There were no screams, no struggle.
Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun... These six Second-Level Gods, who had left countless legends on Douluo Continent, were as fragile as porcelain dolls beneath your pressure.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Six muffled impacts rang out almost simultaneously.
Their divine bodies shattered instantly, turning into a cloud of blood mist. Even their divine souls were pulverized by that single step, vanishing from the world without a trace!
The drifting blood mist stained Tang San's stunned face red.
In that moment, the Divine Realm fell deathly silent.
Not a sound could be heard.
Tang San stiffly turned around and stared at the empty space behind him, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
Dead... They were all dead...
With just a glance and a single step, only he remained of the Shrek Seven Devils!
The gods kneeling around him lowered their heads even further.
No one dared to look up. No one dared to speak. And no one dared to stand up for Tang San.
Before a living God of Creation, brotherhood and the interests of one's faction were nothing but a joke.
At that moment, Tang San completely snapped!
Seeing Xiao Wu's divine soul vanish, his eyes turned bloodshot and his reason evaporated.
"I don't care who you are! I don't care what kind of damn God of Creation you are! You dared to hurt my Xiao Wu—you deserve to die!!"
Boom—!
Sea God's Light and Asura Blood Aura shot into the sky! Tang San gripped the Asura Magic Sword, unleashing his Dual Godhood as he charged with world-destroying might, trying to slay a god!
The gods of the God Realm Committee watched, their eyes making him look like a ridiculous clown.
A mayfly trying to shake a tree. A mantis trying to stop a chariot.
Trying to unleash divine power before a God of Creation who controlled time and causality? Had a door slammed on his head?
Faced with Tang San's desperate attack, you didn't so much as move a finger.
You merely glanced at him.
Hum—!
Space and time shifted.
Tang San found himself instantly within a vast, dazzling river that stretched beyond all horizons. There was no up, down, left, or right—only time, flowing endlessly.
"Welcome to your nightmare."
Your indifferent voice echoed through the void.
The next moment, a vast scene slowly unfolded before him.
It was... ten thousand years ago! The Star Dou Great Forest!
The most painful and unforgettable moment of his life—Xiao Wu's sacrifice!
In the scene, the young Tang San stared in despair as Xiao Wu was surrounded and attacked by Spirit Hall.
But this time, history was rewritten.
A figure clad in black robes appeared out of thin air—it was you, traveling through time!
In the scene, you simply snapped your fingers.
Xiao Wu, who had been about to sacrifice herself, froze in place. Then, like a shattered porcelain doll, she fell on the spot! You casually crushed her soul as well!
The sacrifice had been interrupted!
"No!!!"
Watching this, Tang San in the present let out a heart-wrenching wail.
He charged toward the scene like a madman, trying to stop it, trying to save his beloved.
But he could only pass through the scene like a ghost. He couldn't touch anything or change anything.
That profound helplessness nearly drove him to collapse!
"Please... don't... don't hurt her..."
This God King, once so far above everyone else, now knelt in the River of Time, as lowly as a dog, weeping and begging you.
Your expression remained unchanged, your eyes cold as ice.
The scene continued to unfold.
Without the Soul Rings and Spirit Bones from Xiao Wu's sacrifice, Tang San on that timeline had no chance of resisting Spirit Hall's encirclement.
A few minutes later, Ghost Douluo smashed his skull with a single palm.
The favored child of fate fell then and there, leaving no corpse behind!
Crack—!
As the past was erased, the causality of the present collapsed with it.
The moment the scene shattered, Tang San's body in the present began to turn transparent.
He watched in terror as his hands gradually dissolved into specks of light.
The past was dead. What future could remain?
"No... I'm not willing to accept this..."
With one final, resentful cry, Tang San vanished from the world completely.
His divine soul was destroyed, and he would never be reborn!
From that moment on, there was no longer a Sea God Tang San in the world!